A year-old hoax is making the rounds in South Africa again. Supposedly the South African government has sold the Voortrekker Monument to Chinese developers in a quiet backroom deal. China was said to have has called this deal
The most idealest investment opportunity in South Africa ever.
According to Wikipedia:
The Voortrekker Monument commemorates the 'Voortrekkers', Afrikaner emigrants during the 1830s and 1840s who left the Cape Colony (British at the time, but founded by the Dutch) moving into the interior of what is now South Africa in what is known as the Great Trek. The Great Trek consisted of a number of mass movements under a number of different leaders.
The Chinese are said to be planning the conversion of the Voortrekker Monument into a shopping mall, but the name would remain the same, according to one 'Dieter Pieters', fictional spokesman for the Afrikaner civil rights group Afriforum:
You can sell the monument to whomever you want. But we want to categorically state that we oppose name changes in all its forms.
The story is entirely bogus and originates from a site called Banana Newsline, a now-defunct satirical blog which last posted a new story on May 1st 2015. For some reason the story recently went viral again, but it is still false...
(photo credit: Banana Newsline)
